Improvement in rope machinery



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOI-IN WV. PEER, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

VIMPROVEMENT IN ROPE MACHINERY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 23,486, dated April 5, 1S59.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN W. PEER, of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful I'lnprovement in Rope-Making Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of'the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichi Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of ahorizontal rope-making machine with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a transverse verti cal section of the same through the fliers.

3 is a. longitudinal view of the layingblock, partly in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention consists in a certain novel and very simple method of conducting the strands from the bobbins to their respective flier-heads, whereby they are caused to draw with nearly equal freedom, and hence to have nearly the same tension, whether being supplied from the middle of or near the ends of their bobbins.

To enable others to make and use my inven tion, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the example of my invention represented in the accompanying drawings the iiiers work in stationary bearings and the laying of the strands into rope is produced by the revolution of a liier carrying a bobbin on which the rope is taken up.

A A B B are stationary standards constituting the framing of the machine, the standards A A containing the bearings for the strand-iiiers D D, and those B B the bearings for the laying-fliers C.

E E are stays connecting the standards A and B.

F is the driving-shaft arranged to work in bearings in the standards A and B, and carrying two pulleys G and I, from the former of which two belts H H pass round pulleys a a on the several strand-Hiers for the purpose of driving the said iiiers, and from the other I a belt J passes around a pulley h on the laying-flier, for the purpose of driving that flier. The laying-flier contains the capstans S S for taking up the rope as fast as it it is laid, and conveying it to the bobbin or reel (not shown) that is contained within the laying-hier. These capstans are driven by a suitable train of gearing carried by the flier and deriving motion through a belt R running from a pulley l on the shaft F to a pulley m, which works on the journal of the iiier O and carries the first gear of the train.

The strand-bobbins K K are arranged to rotate on spindles whose axes coincide with the axis of revolution of their respective fliers. The stland-iers have each a hole c in one of their side pieces or side rods Z d, such hole being so arranged as to be opposite the middle of the length of the bobbin when the latter is in its place in the iiier.

The strand h from the bobbin of each flier D is conducted over and around the outside of the opposite side rod or side piece d to that which contains the hole, and from thence across to and through the hole c, and from thence through an eye e on the lier-head,and through the hollow journal of the latter to the laying-block, as shown in Fig. i.

To prevent the strand from dragging on the bobbin in passing from one side piece d to the other, guard-rods f f, arranged longitudinally of the flier, are attached to the flier-heads for the purpose of keeping clear of the bobbin the portion of the strand between the two side pieces CZ cl. The operation of these guiderods ff is illustrated in Fig. 2. By thus conducting the strand round the exterior of one side of the flier, and from thence to a hole or guide atvthe center of .the opposite side, the strand is caused to draw more directly from the bobbin, as it is taken from near the ends thereof, than when it passes at once to a guide occupying a fixed position on the side of the iiier, and from thence to the hier-head, as will be readily understood by reference to the upper flier, (shown in Fig. 1,) where it will be seen that though the strand is being taken from close to one head of the bobbin itis drawn almost directly therefrom instead of ment represented in the drawings formed upon or attached to the hollow journal of the laying-flier C, through which the strands enter the said flier; but the said part M may be stationary in some forms of rope-machines. The piece L is bored from its back end concentrically with its conical face to fit to one end of a rod O, arranged in line with the center of the part M, the other end of which rod rests against the standard A andis held in the proper line by a cross-head N, which is rxnly attached toit and tted to the stayrods E E. The said piece L is fitted to the end of the rod O insuch manner as to be capable of sliding longitudinally thereon to a limited extent, but prevented turning therein by slots y in the sides fitting to ears k on the rod, as shown in Figs. l and 2. It is also fitted to the rod so loosely as to be capable of a little lateral oscillation thereon. Between the said piece L and the cross-head N there is applied a spiral spring Q, coiled'around the rod O, and this spring exerts its force to push the cone of the said piece L into the cone of the part M. The strands t h pass from their respective fliers between the cones ot' L and M and through the grooves g g of the piece L, which grooves must not be deep enough for the strands to bury themselves within them, as 1t is required that they shall be pressed between L and M by the spring Q. In case of any variation in the size of the strands in any part thereof the longitudinal movement per mitted to the piece L by the spring Q and the lateral movement permitted to the said pieces L on the spindle permit the cone of the said piece so to adjust itself within the hollow cone of the part M as to provide a larger opening on the side on which the largest strand is pre` sented and yet to make the said cone press just as tightly upon the smaller strands, so that the same degree of tension is at all times produced upon each strand at the laying-block notwithstanding any Variations in size. The portion L of the laying-block will in a sunand-planet machine rotate along with the Hiers in their planetary motion.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Conducting the strands from their bobbins round the exterior of one side of the flier and from thence over guide-rodsff or their equivalen ts to4 and through a hole or guide c on the opposite side ot the flier, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth. Y

JOHN W. PEER. Vitnesses:

LEONARD WAGER, MICHAEL HOGAN. 

